Say What? A Green Alkyd Paint!

When my husband and I set out to paint our kitchen cabinets and a deep windowsill in the same room, we assumed we'd be using Benjamin Moore Aura because of its scrubability and low VOCs. While oil pai

When my husband and I set out to paint our kitchen cabinets and a deep windowsill in the same room, we assumed we'd be using Benjamin Moore Aura because of its scrubability and low VOCs. While oil paint used to be the go-to for such hard-wearing surfaces, we simply refuse to expose ourselves and our son to its noxious offgassing that can last for weeks and weeks. Yet we also weren't convinced that Aura could hold up in this application (kitchen cabinetry takes a beating!). That's when the guy at our local paint store clued us in on something that's blown my mind: